Submitted by YHS Yearbook Staff OAKHURST – Calling anyone from business owners, to parents, grandparents, and all mountain community members! Yosemite High School’s yearbook staff is soliciting ads that will appear on the 40th anniversary edition of the 2015-16 YHS Yearbook. Our yearbook staff will gratefully accept your custom designed ad. For example, you may make a tribute to your ...

“The War To End All Wars” officially ended on June 28, 1919, with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. But the armistice that ended the fighting in World War I, then known as The Great War, went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November 11, ...

OAKHURST – Anxious to put your paws on some fresh bingo cards? The community is invited to Sit-Stay-Play Bingo on Friday, Nov.  20 at the Oakhurst Community Center. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and bingo starts at 6:30 p.m. for a ton of fun that benefits the efforts to being a local humane animal shelter to the foothills. Your $25 ...

OAKHURST – Two local chains are offering freebies to active duty service members and veterans, as a show of thanks for their service,  on Wednesday, Nov. 11, Veterans Day. Denny’s Restaurant, located at 40650 Highway 41, invites active, inactive and retired military personnel to stop by for a free Build Your Own Grand Slam® breakfast on Veterans Day from 5 ...

“Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.” – Former General of the Army, Omar Bradley Heroes come in all shapes, sizes and professions. This year thousands of men and women bravely put their lives on the line fighting the fires that engulfed our region. Our local law enforcement officials put themselves in danger every ...

OAKHURST – Just after 11 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 9, CHP responded to an accident on Highway 41 near Golden Oak Loop, involving a total of four vehicles, one of them a motorhome. The driver of the motorhome, a resident of San Jose who was southbound on Highway 41 with one passenger, told CHP that his brakes failed when he ...

OAKHURST – The local chapter of nonprofit organization Helping One Woman (HOW) will meet to honor Laurie Zumwalt at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at El Cid’s Mexican Cuisine. “Last spring, Laurie gave birth to a baby girl, Tauriel, who passed away just two weeks later due to a rate congenital defect,” say organizers. “Laurie and her husband, Dusten, ...

Submitted by Dave Smith Late last month the Sequoia Council, Boy Scouts of America, held a council-wide camporall at Camp Chawanakee, Shaver Lake. The last council wide camporall was five years ago. Boy Scout troops and Cub Scout packs from throughout the council participated in the weekend event: over 600 Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, parents and leaders gathered together. Numerous ...

MARIPOSA  – Effective today at 8 a.m. the burn permit suspension in Madera Mariposa Merced Unit (MMU) of Cal Fire has been lifted, according to Fire Prevention Specialist Karen Guillemin-Kanawyer. This affects State Responsibility Areas within Mariposa County, Madera County, and Merced Counties.  Cal Fire MMU Unit Chief Nancy Koerperich is formally cancelling the burn permit suspension, and advises that ...

Submitted by Oakhurst neighbors Mr. and Mrs. White We were devastated to have our Oakhurst storage lockers plundered twice within a few days, in August, 2015. Although the burglar — a drug-addicted repeat offender — was soon apprehended, the sense of violation and loss continues to haunt us, especially since very few of our possessions were recovered. The most shocking ...